I have to start this post out with a confession. I have once again earned the coveted "Mother of the Year" award!!! I have actually earned this award countless times in my tenure as a mother. I got home from work yesterday and checked my email to find a little note from Hailey saying, "Hello.... is anyone home?" That was it. Yes, I forgot what day it was and had totally FAILED to write my sweet daughter an email!!!! She waited half and hour then sent her regular email. Of course I didn't see either of them until much later. What makes this worse is that I had checked her past letters to make sure this wasn't transfer week because on transfer week she writes on Tuesdays and I didn't want her to write and not have something from home considering it was Tuesday --- and it was actually Wednesday!!!! Anyway...... on to her email :)
Family!
This week was super good. On Sunday before church we had about 2 and a half hours to go tracting and find people. We were in this area where it's really multicultural. Nobody was answering and the few that did weren't interested. We walked up to the next door in line and before we knocked a dog was barking and a lady came up and told us to wait a minute while she put the dog away. She came back and let us right in. She then asked us if Alex sent us. We were super confused because we didn't know who Alex was. She continued to let us in and had us sit down and told us that Alex was her son. He is 18, joined the church 2 years ago and is now wanting to go on a mission. She is not a member and was super nervous about him going in the spring. They had even talked about missionaries coming over to see her, but he hadn't talked to any missionaries about coming over yet. She had a bunch of questions to ask us and at the end she called Alex to come over and he was happily surprised we were there. He then told us to teach his mom and set up a return appointment. She couldn't set up a time right then, but we have her number and will be calling her. It was such a miracle! Also, come to find out that one of the missionaries who taught Alex is our district leader when he first came out on his mission. It's super cool!
So we had been hoping that the visitor center would be open by Friday, it didn't open until Monday. They still have quite a bit to do, the only things that work currently are the theaters. So if one comes in they can look at the Christus (no narration) or watch a movie. Kinda limited, but that's okay, as long as it's done for Christmas.
Hey did Philip tell you that they lost power there because a squirrel got electrocuted? That was so funny! Did I tell you about the time we were checking on people and we saw a squirrel climbing a building with a slice of pizza in it's mouth? There are so many squirrels here and they are so funny!
Well, I love the gospel, I love you. Have a great week! Love, Sister Wankier
I'm still searching and waiting for pictures to post!!
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